The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see
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The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see resource for landlubbers and mariners alike.

Carol Gafford is a public librarian, family historian, amateur archivist and book savior. She is currently the youth services/outreach librarian at the Swansea Public Library and volunteers for several museum and historical societies including the Marine Museum at Fall River, the Swansea Historical Society and the Bristol Historical and Preservation society. She is the editor of Past Times, the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists and is always looking for a new project to take on.

Sen. Scott Brown and challenger Elizabeth Warren today offered opposite positions on the DISCLOSE Act, which would require third party interest groups to report their donors and stand by their ads.

WARREN: “Citizens United unleashed a wave of special interest spending that threatens to drown out the voices of middle class families. Billionaires and big corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money during campaigns while they hide behind a curtain of secrecy,” said Warren. “The DISCLOSE Act will provide accountability, requiring that those who fund political advertising make their support public. Unfortunately, Scott Brown and Republicans in the Senate have blocked this common sense measure. It’s time for them to stop protecting their influential friends by helping them hide their influence from the public.”

The Senate will soon begin consideration of the DISCLOSE Act which requires outside organizations that spend over $10,000 to report that spending to the Federal Election Commission within 24 hours and to disclose donors who give more than $10,000. The Act also increases transparency by requiring organizations that sponsor political ads to disclose the top funders of the ads. It also requires that the head of the organization state his or her approval of the advertisement—as political candidates do now.

In 2010, Scott Brown joined two Republican filibusters of the bill, shielding powerful interests from any accountability for their campaign spending. On one of those occasions, he was the deciding vote to uphold the filibuster and block consideration of the bill.

BROWN: "The DISCLOSE Act is a cynical political ploy masquerading as reform and I continue to oppose it. Rather than treat all sides equally as a true reform bill would, it contains special carve outs for union bosses and other favored interest groups. In Massachusetts, I took direct action to limit the influence of outside spending and Super PACs, and I am glad my People's Pledge has kept third parties out of our state. I didn't wait for Washington D.C. to come up with a solution to the problem of outside money, and I would encourage other candidates running across the country to do the same."